Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity | 7m video | I highly recommend this

via youtube.com

Feb 12 2009
Katz does a great job showing how aggressive masculinity is not only enculturated, but also enforced. Male Born Femininity is actively oppressed.
I like how he also touches on the role of Heterosexual women (even feminists) in valorizing Mab masculinity, and keeping the structures intact.
I would also add the Feminst versions of Fab (Female At Birth) Nationalism also reinforce the the cage of masculinity by painting all Mabs as aggressors and predators, thereby enforcing the invisibility of Mab femininity.

Jasper Gregory

SF Femme Street Fashion | "Younger men are just like girls, underneath the attitude."

Feb 11 2009
I met A. this week at the new Geeky Book Cafe Borderlands in SF in The Mission. We had a great meandering talk about art, the CityArts cooperative gallery, Gender and Fat Activism.
She said that in relationship, younger men "feel" like girls. That is fascinating. Are boys really just girls underneath it all? That reminds me of my Pitbull Model of Masculinity. "You are not born a pitbull, you become one." Boys are emotionally immature, territorial, aggressive, and rigid because they are raised through abusive enculturation. Underneath it we are just girls who were pathologically socialized. This model rests on a hunch that girl-socialization with its emphasis on learning to nurture, socialize and cooperate has continuity with pre-agricultural and primate sociality. It is older. The emotional scarification of young boys is of more recent vintage.

Jasper Gregory